Michal Rataj (born 1975) is Czech composer of contemporary music. He is assistant professor of electroacoustic music at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. He studied musicology and composition in Prague, Egham (UK) and Berlin (D) and he was a Fulbright Scholar to Centre For New Music And Audio Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is member of the producers' EBU Ars Acustica Group, his music has been broadcast worldwide and performed throughout Europe and in the USA.